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Old 11-23-2005
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Hi all,

I have in one script something like this:

FIRSTOCC=`grep -n ORA- alert_bill2.log |tail -"$ROWS"|head -1|cut -d: -f1`
TOTAL=`more alert*|wc -l`

DIFFERENCE=`$TOTAL-$FIRSTOCC`

echo Total lines in alert_bill = $TOTAL
echo $DIFFERENCE

How do I make this substraction work?
Thk
# 2  
Old 11-23-2005
Code:
DIFFERENCE=$((TOTAL-FIRSTOCC))

echo $DIFFERENCE

# 3  
Old 11-23-2005
Thanks
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